Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Romans 7:10
The commandment which was intended for life — Doubtless it was originally intended by God as a grand means of preserving and increasing spiritual life, and leading to life everlasting.
The commandment which was intended for life — Doubtless it was originally intended by God as a grand means of preserving and increasing spiritual life, and leading to life everlasting.
Verse Romans 7:10. _AND THE COMMANDMENT_] Meaning the _law_ in general, _which_ was ordained _to life_; the rule of righteousness teaching those statutes which if a man do he shall live in them, Levi...
AND THE COMMANDMENT - The Law to which he had referred before. WHICH WAS ORDAINED TO LIFE - Which was intended to produce life, or happiness. Life here stands opposed to death, and means felicity, pea...
CHAPTER 7 _ 1. The Law and its Dominion. (Romans 7:1 .)_ 2. Dead to the Law and Married to Another. (Romans 7:4 .) 3. Concerning the Law; its Activities and Purpose. (Romans 7:7 .) 4. The Experienc...
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE MAN UNDER LAW. What it means to be in bondage to the old letter (6), the apostle will show from his own experience. That the following description belongs to Paul's legal past app...
THE NEW ALLEGIANCE (Romans 7:1-6)...
What then are we to infer? That the law is sin? God forbid! So far from that, I would never have known what sin meant except through the law. I would never have known desire if the law had not said, ...
TO, UNTO. App-104. LIFE. App-170. I FOUND. was itself found by me....
_ordained to life_ In the Gr. simply TO LIFE. Such was its natural tendency. "This do and _thou shall live_" is the statement of a deep and holy sequence. The failure lies not in the commandment but i...
ἘΓῺ ΔῈ�. Here of the death to the pre-moral life, a death by and in sin: _aor._ = became dead. ΕὙΡΈΘΗ = proved in my experience; more than ἐγένετο....
Romans 7:7-25. The new life is effective to achieve righteousness in each man, as the law could not do. (7) Not that the law is itself sin, but it awakes the consciousness of sin, as, for instance, co...
ΆΠΈΘΑΝΟΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΠΟΘΝΉΣΚΩ (G599) умирать, ΕΥΡΈΘΗ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΕΎΡΊΣΚΩ (G2147) находить; здесь в _знач._ результата: "обнаружилось, что это причина моей смерти" (BAGD)....
ORDAINED TO LIFE— _Intended for life._ The law, which was just, and such as it ought to be, in having the penalty of death annexed to every transgression of it, (Galatians 3:10.) came to produce death...
TEXT Romans 7:7-12. What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt not cove...
And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. AND (THUS) THE COMMANDMENT, WHICH WAS [ORDAINED] TO LIFE - more simply, 'which was for life;' that is, designed to give l...
__ Conciliation-Individual 12 A realization of our death to sin and life in Christ will give us power to cope with sin, always remembering that sin cannot bring us into disfavor because of the super...
THE INADEQUACY OF THE LAW TO SAVE 1-6. St. Paul had spoken of the Law in a way which would offend an earnest Jew: cp. Romans 3:20; Romans 4:15; Romans 5:20. In this chapter ...
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 7 FREEDOM FROM LAW 7:1-25 1. AN EXAMPLE FROM *MARRIAGE 7:1-6 V1 Christian *brothers and *sisters, I am speaking to pe...
WHICH WAS ORDAINED TO. — “The very commandment which was for life I found to be for death” (Ellicott). The Law was instituted in order that it might give life to those who were under it and who kept i...
CHAPTER 16 THE FUNCTION OF THE LAW IN THE SPIRITUAL LIFE Romans 7:7 THE Apostle has led us a long way in his great argument; through sin, propitiation, faith, union, surrender, to that wonderful and...
CHAPTER 15 JUSTIFICATION AND HOLINESS: ILLUSTRATIONS FROM HUMAN LIFE Romans 6:14 - Romans 7:1 AT the point we have now reached, the Apostle's thought pauses for a moment, to resume. He has brought...
The actual working of the law. A very close connection between the law and sin is implied in all that has preceded: especially in Romans 6:14, and in such an expression as τὰ παθὴματα τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν τὰ...
The result is that the commandment defeats its Own intention; it has life in View, but it ends in death. Here also analysis only misleads. Life and death are indivisible wholes....
THE LAW MAKES SIN KNOWN Romans 7:1 To make his meaning clear the Apostle now enters upon a parable drawn from domestic life. He says that we are married to the Law as our first husband, and seek, thr...
Continuing his argument, the apostle showed under the marital figure that a change of covenant changes the center of responsibility. Then we have one of the great personal and experimental passages of...
SECOND SECTION (7:7-25). POWERLESSNESS OF THE LAW TO SANCTIFY MAN. Sixteenth Passage (Vers. 7-25.) The essential ideas of this passage are the following: After having involved man in death (Romans 7...
This whole exposition is introduced by the objection which consists in identifying the law with sin. But it must not be thought that the apostle's aim is really to exonerate the law from such a suspic...
a. “ _And I was alive when I was formerly without law; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died;_ ” Calvin well expresses the rhythm of these verses: “The death of sin is the life of ma...
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. (8) But sin, taking occasion by t...
10._Was found by me, etc. _Two things are stated here — that the commandment shows to us a way of life in the righteousness of God, and that it was given in order that we by keeping the law of the Lor...
We have considered the effect of the death and resurrection of Christ with reference to justification and to practical life. In the early part of the epistle (to Chapter 5:11) He has died for our sins...
AND THE COMMANDMENT WHICH WAS ORDAINED TO LIFE,.... The law which promised a continuance of an immortal life to Adam, in case of perfect obedience to it; and which was appointed to the Israelites, tha...
And the commandment, which _was ordained_ to life, I found _to be_ unto death. Ver. 10. _Ordained to life_] By life and death understand peace and perturbation....
_For I was alive_ In my own conceit; _without the law_ Without the proper knowledge of its spirituality, extent, and obligation. I apprehended myself to be righteous, and in the way to life eternal; _...
ORDAINED TO LIFE; to give life to all who should perfectly obey it. UNTO DEATH; because I had broken it and fallen under its curse....
AND THE COMMANDMENT WHICH WAS ORDAINED TO LIFE I FOUND TO BE UNTO DEATH....
THE PURPOSE OF THE LAW AND ITS EFFECT. The object of the Law:...
CHANGE OF "HUSBANDS" BUT A STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM In Romans 7:1 we are faced with the case of a renewed conscience recognizing the claims of righteousness - or more correctly, holiness - hating evil and...
7-12 IS THE LAW GOOD OR BAD? Is it a blessing or a curse? What did the law do? 1. Pointed out sinful behavior 7 2. Made us aware of sin in our lives 8 3. Makes us aware of the death penalty 9 4....
AND THE COMMANDMENT, WHICH WAS UNTO LIFE, THIS. FOUND TO BE UNTO DEATH: "UNTO LIFE" -'designed to bring me life' (Wey) "Do this and live" he had heard. The Law was to regulate the living. Paul said: ...
7-13 There is no way of coming to that knowledge of sin, which is necessary to repentance, and therefore to peace and pardon, but by trying our hearts and lives by the law. In his own case the apostl...
q.d. So it came to pass, that the commandment, which was ordained to be a rule of life, and, if I could have kept it, a means of life also, ROMANS 10:5 GALATIANS 3:12, I found it to be to me (through...
and the commandment, which was unto life, this I found to be unto death :...
Romans 7:10 And G2532 commandment G1785 which G3588 to G1519 life G2222 I G3427 found G2147 (G5681)...
PAUL'S INITIAL EXPERIENCE OF THE ‘SLAYING' POWER OF THE LAW (7:7-13). Having demonstrated that much of what sin does in chapter 6, the Law does in Romans 7:1 (see introduction to chapter 7 above), Pau...
‘And the commandment, which was unto life, this I found to be unto death,' And the result was that the commandment which was found in the Law, the commandment which was supposed to be giving him life...
Romans 7:10. WHICH WAS UNTO LIFE. The promise of the law, covering its every ‘commandment,' was ‘do this and ‘live;' its aim was ‘life.' THIS, or, ‘the same.' The latter is perhaps preferable, givin...
2. _The Law is holy_, _but cannot make Sinners holy_. The fact that Christians are freed from the law might suggest a wrong inference as to the character of the law. This Paul denies (Romans 7:7), but...
3. MORAL RESULTS OF JUSTIFICATION; THOSE JUSTIFIED BY FAITH LIVE A NEW LIFE IN THE SPIRIT. The gospel is the power of God unto salvation; through it the will is affected, and thus is accomplished _mo...
THIS I FOUND UNTO DEATH (ευρεθη μοι--αυτη εις θανατον). Literally, "the commandment the one for (meant for) life, this was found for me unto death." First aorist (effective) passive indicative of ε...
Romans 7:7 A Chapter in Saul's Early Life. I. St. Paul repels with energy the idea that there can be anything essentially bad, unholy, or immoral about the blessed law of God itself. On the contrary,...
This is Paul's own account of his inward conflicts. He longed to conquer sin. He wanted to become a free man, and live always a godly and holy life, but he found that there was a battle within his nat...
Romans 7:1. Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law), how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to h...
CONTENTS: The conflict of the flesh with the spiritual nature. Impossibility of victory through the law. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: The function of the law is to detect and condemn si...
Romans 7:1. _I speak to them that know the law,_ with a view more fully to illustrate the liberation from the condemnation of the law, that the law has dominion over a man, and over a woman, as long a...
AND I DIED. The awareness of sin showed him under the sentence of death. It may have been when Christ said, "I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you persecute," that Paul first realized that "Christ has brou...
_What shall we say then?_ Is the law sin? God forbid. THE LAW I. Its nature-- 1. Moral. 2. Spiritual. 3. Exemplified by the particular commandment quoted. II. Its use-- 1. To describe the natu...
TO WHOM DOES THE PASSAGE REFER? _To the unregenerate.--_ It has been much discussed whether this section describes a justified man, or a man still unforgiven. The latter view was held by Origen and t...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 7:7 The claim that the Mosaic law produced sin and death raises the question, Is the law itself sinful? Paul explains that the law itself is good and that the fault lies with sin...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 7:7.—I had not known the specific character and peculiar nature of lust. The law of God proclaims to man _non concupisces_, and thus he learns that concupiscence is sin. The m...
EXPOSITION ROMANS 7:1 Here comes in the third illustration of the moral obligation of the baptized. It rests on the recognized principle that _death _cancels the claims of human law on a person (cf....
Romans chapter 7. Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) (Romans 7:1) In other words, I am talking now to the Jews, and how that the law has dominion over a man as long as h...
2 Corinthians 3:7; Ezekiel 20:11; Ezekiel 20:13; Ezekiel 20:21;...
THE INWARD CONFLICT Romans 7:7 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The first part of the seventh of Romans presents the illustration of a woman with two husbands. It tells us that the woman which hath a husband, is...
Observe here, 1. The natural end and use of the commandment or law of God, IT WAS ORDAINED UNTO LIFE; that is, it was given for. rule of life,. promised eternal salvation to the perfect fulfilling of...